ATTACK ON CONSTABLE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15081, 2 December 1919, Page 5

ATTACK ON CONSTABLE.

While Constable : Butter worth was arresting a Maori yesterday afternoon- in *"■ Gladi-torio road another Maori intervened, and hit -the and- then 6eized .him bytlie logs. The constable released the first.'- man and tackled his aggressor, safely conducting 'the latter, to- the Uock-up." The sequel was enacted this morning, when an active-looking native, -who ' styled .himself Puriri/ipleadGd;:n6t: guilty to a charge, of assaulting ....Coiistaible '. Butterworth while in tho execution of his duty. Const-able Butterworth said lit? arrested a native on charges of drunkenness, and disorderly"'" behaviour and obscene' language, and was . taking him . along " to the police station when accused Jiit him- (witness) between the blades- and seized him around ' the 'legs. • $pnie Civilians assisted him to .get accused tp the station. Accused said he wa& drunk and did not know 1 ho was .in gaol, until he awoke up this nioi'iung. Sergt. Clarkson said/assaults on the police by • Natives were becoming top frequeriX iiv Giisborne, and he asked his Worship to remember that.y v,;.^.' vi •; His- Worship, af ter \ pointihg7,out ■ to' accused th^ .seriousness of .-his act,'; said, it was nob '&'{■ serious .- assault,. • but it, sbould^be known that when a" man assaults a constable he jfoes to gaol without the optipji.'.of a. fine. Accus.ed was sentenced to>th>ee days' hard :labor''in gaol. '"• ■-:'; •■"' ./. •' ■■..-■' / : -' -\ > ," : • : His 'Worship said 1 the . thanks of the: public ■•' were - due io the ■■.■ two civilians vw,hp ; assisted the constable .to arrest Vac-* cused.